Big gov.za outage

[mylesillidge]

South African government almost entirely offline

Much of the gov.za namespace is offline, with Domain Name System (DNS) servers not resolving Internet addresses for most South African government departments.

Outage tracking service Downdetector shows that people started reporting problems with the gov.za domain from around 14:00 on Monday, 13 October 2025.

 

[2026]

Vodafone.co.uk is also down and out, I wonder if it's somehow related.

 

[rustypup]

Yip. Infectious spam dropped off a cliff. How do we go about extending this "outage"?

 

[FiestaST]

lulz

https://twitter.com/x/status/1977740715271626812

 

[porchrat]

I'm surprised anybody noticed. Sounds like business as usual.

 

[Agent_Smith]

"I tried restarting it, but..."

 

[Pegging]

lulz

https://twitter.com/x/status/1977740715271626812

Lovely.

Another first class trip and stays in the finest hotels in Europe and billions more to loot.
That was another great week for the cadres.

 

[gregmcc]

Only a handful of people noticed

 

[Neuk_]

Da sistem ees ofline.

 

[r00igev@@r]

Looks like the Sita network running on DiData has gone TITSUP.

 

[r00igev@@r]

The ones that are working are in the cloud and not on SITA.

 

[Jan]

Feedback from SITA:

We confirm that one of our internet breakout points situated in Centurion, Gauteng province, experienced internet outage. The internet link went down due to a cable break and the cause of the break has yet to be determined. We are prioritizing to get services running again and have mobilized the SITA teams and external service provider to attend to this incident.

The affected areas were diverted to the backup link, which is currently congested due to the additional traffic load, resulting in degraded performance. The following provinces are currently affected:

1. Gauteng
2. Limpopo
3. Mpumalanga
4. North West
5. KwaZulu Natal

We are optimistic that the services will be restored to normal operations in approximately one hour.

SITA sincerely apologizes for the outage experienced and the inconvenience our customers endured.

That "approximately one hour" estimate was 18:50. It's already been two hours and things aren't back online. Looks like www.gov.za is back.

 

[Sinbad]

Lol. N+1 is a colonialist concept

 

[Swa]

The SA government has been offline for 30 years for everything except corruption.

 

[ToxicBunny]

I'm surprised anybody noticed. Sounds like business as usual.

We only noticed cos #BlameJan is on the ball tonight